An Anderson man is facing multiple charges after police said they found three dead dogs and four dead puppies that he admitted he was keeping at an abandoned structure.

According to an incident report, 20-year-old Kameron Lashun Morris attacked the mother of his child outside Action Foods on Franklin Street.

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The woman told police that Morris punched her in the face several times before she was able to get into a vehicle. She said that Morris then took a mailbox and slammed it into the vehicle's windshield before she could get it started.

Morris is charged with criminal domestic violence in relation to that attack.

Officers said that they later found Morris at his home, and that's when he told them about the dogs at the abandoned home at 413 Rose Hill Street.

"Our officers questioned him about if he had anything in the house we needed to know about and he immediately said off the bat I have dead dogs here," said Sgt. Tony Tilley.

Police said they found the bodies of the three dogs inside the structure. The officers said one of the dogs was wearing a collar and chain.

Officers said when they searched the property they found a dog house behind the structure that had been turned over on its back so that at least four puppies that were inside it couldn't get out. The puppies were all dead.

Morris is charged with seven counts of ill treatment of animals and seven counts of disposition of dead animals.